The curiosity factor is of course a big drawing card for this restaurant. But take it from someone who is based in Italy — the food is pretty good too, even if you do have to eat it off plastic cutlery.

No criminal records allowed. Show an ID, hand in your cell phone and purse and go through a metal detector.

The monthly event is the part of the rehabilitation program dreamed up by warden Mariagrazia Gianpiccolo.

The evening costs about $35 and the food and wine are donated, so most of the money goes to charity, and the rest is split among the 27 inmates who do the work.

But then you've probably never considered spending a night inside a 15th century fortress that is one of Italy's most secure jails — where the cooks and waiters are murderers, bank robbers, drug dealers … and don't ask what else, CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey reports.

(CBS) The clang of a prison door is not generally associated with fine dining.

The dapper chap in the brocade waistcoat is a Sardinian bandit.